Morningside Heights Apartments & Neighborhood Information

Columbia University dominates the area known as Morningside Heights, which is the hilly area from Cathedral Parkway (West 110th Street) to 125th Street. The university’s main campus extends from 114th to 120th Streets and was designed by McKim, Mead & White in 1897.

Many of the apartment buildings in this neighborhood are pre-war and are generally, in co-op buildings. The residents in this area are either local students who come and go with school semesters or the original New Yorkers who have lived in this neighborhood for most of their lives and don’t have any intentions of leaving it.